Start watching european and asian films, and you'll discover a completely different world.
Movies are art, and directors are auteurs but you'll never see this in most american films
produced today (there are exceptions but few).
Here is a personal top 15 of sorts:
1) Andrei Tarkovsky -- Zerkalo (1975)
2) Andrei Tarkovsky -- Andrey Rublyov (1966)
3) Andrei Tarkovsky -- Stalker (1979)
4) Theodoros Angelopoulos -- Vlemma tou Odyssea, To (1995)
5) Kar Wai Wong -- Fa yeung nin wa (2000)
6) Kar Wai Wong -- 2046 (2004)
7) Kar Wai Wong -- Dung che sai duk (1994)
8) Robert Rossen -- The Hustler (1961)
9) Ki-duk Kim -- Nabbeun namja (2001)
10) Kar Wai Wong -- Chung Hing sam lam (1994)
11) Kar Wai Wong -- A Fei zheng chuan (1991)
12) Michelangelo Antonioni -- Eclisse, L' (1962)
13) Jean-Luc Godard -- Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)
14) Jean-Luc Godard -- À bout de souffle (1960)
15) Jean-Pierre Melville -- Cercle rouge, Le (1970)
Here are some recent non-ordinary films that I enjoyed:
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